Literature in Region 2Raymart Enriquez

Isidro

Region 2 (Cagayan Valley)

•Batanes

•Cagayan

• Isabela

•Nueva Vizcaya

•Quirino

Writers and Literary Works

•Florentino Hornedo

•Fernando Maramag

•Edith L. Tiempo

Florentino Hornedo

• Born on October 16, 1938 in Batanes.

• He was born to Leon Hornedo and Bienvenida Hontomin.

• Hailing from Savidug, Sabtang, Batanes, Hornedo obtained his BSE from the University of Santo Tomas in 1961. He received his Masters in English and Philosophy from St. Louis University in 1966 and 1972 respectively and his Ph.D. in Literature from UST in 1977.

Florentino Hornedo

• He also completed a post doctorate in History and Political Science from UST completed in 1985-88 and has trainings in Journalism and Cultural Anthropology.

• As a writer, Dr. Hornedo has authored 13 books in Philosophy, Education, Culture and History. In addition, he has been editor of Ad Veritatem , a Journal of Research at the UST Graduate School, and Ivatan Studies Journal , a Graduate School Research Journal at the Saint Dominic College of Batanes.

Florentino Hornedo• A recipient of Palanca Awards for literature in 1989. His winning

essay is entitled,“Discourse of Power in Florante at Laura”.

• Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, National Catholic Authors Award, Pilak Award for Service to Culture, the Arts and Community, of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Annual Book Awards of Ateneo de Manila University, Batanes Provincial Achievement Recognition for Cultural and Social Research, Recognition Award for Social Research, from the UST College of Education Alumni Association, and Most Outstanding Thomasian Alumni Awardee in the Arts & Humanities 2006.

Prof. Dr. Florentino Hornedo Ph.D. 

Literary Works of Florentino Hornedo

Literary Works of Florentino Hornedo

The Visitors and the Native of the Jeepney and the Tricycle

•Refelection

expressed the idea of “Filipinicity”, where it addressed the idea of the social implications behind the phrase, “Today’s native was yesterday’s visitor.”

The Visitors and the Native of the Jeepney and the Tricycle

“To Build a People’s Culture”

“Art out of Crisis”, focused on the social issue of the possibilities within the domains for traditional and contemporary Filipino popular art forms that are in grave jeopardy of decreasing its economic and social appeal.

Hornedo had pointed out, “Today’s native was yesterday’s visitor”. With the events of history now behind us, it has left many marks of political and social influences which have shaped the current situation in the Philippines.